Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is in Silicon Valley this morning, meeting with the founders of Twitter before heading to Cisco Systems where he's scheduled to see CEO John Chambers, the company's president of emerging markets Peter Mountford, and others.

More than 160,000 Droid smartphones are shipped globally every day, an indication that Google, the Android operating system developer, is ready to take on its rival Apple as front-runner in the mobile world, Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, told CNBC before Verizon's debut of thr latest Motorola Droid X.

At current count, there are close to 100,000 apps available in the Android Marketplace. Best of all, you can download and install many of them for free. Read on for a dozen of the best, must-have downloadable — and free! — apps for your Android phone.

When it comes to privacy, I'm the first to stand up and shout that privacy ought to be protected at the highest costs. Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg might disagree. The good folks over at Google, now facing a multi-state Attorneys General investigation over privacy concerns might disagree too.

This has been a difficult few quarters for Adobe. Not financially, but technically. At least if you believe the folks at Apple, particularly Steve Jobs who put a very public face on what he says are Adobe's severe technical shortcomings when it comes to Flash.

Stocks pared their gains, but were still higher Monday after China said it would allow its currency to appreciate against the dollar, a move that could provide a boost for U.S. manufacturers, exporters and commodities.

All three major US indexes moved back into positive territory for 2010, closing above their 200-day moving averages to finish the week up nearly 2.3%. As of last Friday, only the Russell 2,000 was positive year-to-date.